Heroic style desert guys

These are proof of concept miniatures, the bodies are test casts of my sculpts coupled with some warhammer heads and arms.

They look OK... I need to try other configurations and colour schemes.

Tox Troopers remastered

After a long hobby drought I got a sculpting itch, so jumped in on a whim a remastered my tox trooper sculpts. I have no idea if these are still on sale or in stock at anvil industry at the present time.

In terms of remastering it was more than touch ups here and there... I completely chopped off all the feet and re-sculpted them (I never used to be good at feet) and added some more bulk to the lower long coats.

When I originally made them it wasn't to proxy into an existing game system, the style of my sculpts was very slim and tall, unlike most of the popular ranges out in the market. I've picked up some Games Workshop stuff recently and think I'll use them as heresy era traitor guard at some point.

If I can finish up a heavy weapon trooper and some command/characters I might have them cast up.

They are still quite slight and make the old space marines look suitably superhuman. Compared to the newer Primaris space marines though they will be completely tiny... so I did a mock up of a heroic style trooper...

Masters. Hoplites and Techno Communion

Cleaning up master casts is quite a time consuming effort.

First I give them a short dunk in warm soapy water followed by a light brush with a toothbrush to get all the mould release agents off. Usually the release agent is powder.

Then I set to work with a set of small files and a scalpel blade removing all the mould lines and any imperfections. They need to be completely perfect.

Then it's another soapy water bath and brush to remove the filing and shavings, and I'm done - final set of masters ready for production moulds.

I just need to add the Spartan helmets to a little sprue and make 14 spears and I'm good to go....

Back by popular demand too, the Techno Communion will get another run!

Soon as these are in the post to the mould maker I need to put together an actual web store...

Hoplite metals

Some Hoplite masters here.

Single part is very desirable when dealing with metal miniatures (for me anyway), and I'm happy with how close I've got with these - it's just the right arm that will need glued on when assembling them.

Having the right arms as separate pieces allows more dynamic poses and brings a bit of life to the sculpts by adding in a second plane, otherwise the minis are flat. It also means they can be assembled with either spears or swords.

Thanks for all the emails I get chasing these up. I'm trying to get these perfect before I put any up for sale...

Red Hoplites

These miniatures are plastic Victrix hoplites, combined with my own metal heads and arms. Hopefully I'll be able to offer some for sale this summer but if you want some now, drop me a comment below.

And above, my metal heads on the plastic Victrix archers!

Daughters of the Burning Rose

I was lucky enough to get some of the initial test casts from Anvil Industry for their Daughters of the Burning Rose kickstarter.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1637892615/daughters-of-the-burning-rose

As to be expected from Anvil by now these are superior miniatures - solid design and perfectly cast.

Do note these are not the production miniatures (I don't expect anything to change between these tests and the actual production miniatures).

I'm a backer on the project so will get another of these Inquisitor miniatures... I'm glad of that, I'd like another chance to paint this miniature it's definitely up there as an all time favourite.

Terrain for next year...

There's so much work going on in the background that doesn't reach this blog.

Here's a quick work in progress snap of one such thing, for next years mega project...